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Person Details
 
Last Name_[MONUMENT]
First Name(SLOOP LEVANT)
Maiden 
Relation 
Cemetery NumberPW005
Cemetery NameOAK GROVE CEMETERY
Birth Day0
Birth Month 
Birth Year 
Death Day0
Death Month 
Death Year 
War 
Gravestone Details
SectionH4
Lot 
Map0034
Stone Materialmarble
Conditiongood
Shaperound top
Carvingmisc. other
Legibilitygood
Number of Graves on Stone0
Stone Height (inches) 
Stone Width (inches) 
Exists?
Last Seen Date2001
Carver 
Notes/Misc Details
NotesThis stone is a cenotaph. It reads: "Lost at sea. Sailed from Boston June 18, 1858 on the US Sloop of War "Levant" With 320 men. The ship was lost with all aboard in the year 1860 on her passage from Honolulu to Panama."
Transcribed ByJLW;JWN